I used to eat SPAM but I don’t eat pork anymore. I did always enjoy the strange consistency of the product when it was cold and a nice fried SPAM w/ mustard sandwich.
Great for camping....But at home, I’d make a tuna casserole first. People will go back to “pot” cooking...stew, chili, meatloaf...Milk and juice instead of soda..
Hmmmmm, fired spam. Good stuff!
According to their price, it works out to about $3.49 a pound. You can buy better cuts of meat for that price.
For some reason or other SPAM has always been a popular food item in Hawaii ... go figure.
Rather eat road-kill. Least you know what it is.
Ping to you. Does this thread sound familiar for some reason? ;)
I don’t think SPAM is all that cheap. For the price of 3 cans, I can buy a large chicken and a bag of potatoes and have roast chicken, taters, gravy and sides/vegs on Sunday, for 4 of us. Then during the week we’ll have hot roast chicken sandwiches, a casserole or fricassee or tetrazzini, a soup or pot pie or dumplings, enchiladas or chicken spaghetti, with whatever staples that are on hand. And all those include leftovers that are taken to work for lunch.
Once when our son was little and things were tight, someone gave us a turkey and I managed to make it last 8 days (until payday), with a different, good meal every night.
Seems the central precept is that by paying more for a canned meat product, they will spend less because there will be no least minute trips to the store for fresh food.
That it is not true is of little consequence because the real message here is “Republican President = SPAM for Dinner.”
When I learned that Hormel opened a processing plant in China,I stopped buying Spam. I buy Armour canned meat. Taste just like Spam and states. “MADE IN THE USA” right on the can.
This is ridiculous. I like Spam sandwiches—but at $2.72 for 12 oz. I can’t afford it.
Instead I bought a seven pound ham this week for .99 per pound. Yes, that’s right, less than a buck a pound for the real stuff.
Last week I bought chicken breasts on sale for $1.00 per pound.
It’s too bad I can’t afford my childhood favorite any more, but there are still food bargains out there.
The daughter of a friend wrote a paper for her high school assignment “Write about the national dish of any country you want to choose.”
She wrote about Spam being the National Dish of Guam.
Teecher in the Publik Skool flunked her.
Mom told Teecher:
1. Daughter IS a native Guamanian (born on base).
2. National dish IS Spam, thanks to WW II.
Daughter got her usual “A”.
Some people are just ahead of the times.
According to the article, Spam costs an average of $3.50 a pound. I don’t know about the people they interviewed, but I can certainly find a lot more variety of tastier meats for less money than that.
My grocery store had sausage chubs, a dollar a pound last week- fry it up with some taco seasoning, add a tin of refried beans and diced tomatos, top it with forty cents worth of cornbread batter, you’ve got a meal for four almost as cheap as a pound of spam, and a heckuva lot tastier.
Who needs spam when we get all the fresh meat we need here. Raccoon, possum, armadillo, gator, snake, they’re all there, ya just gotta go pick’em up off the road and save a bundle of cash.
Somehow, Spam and organic produce just don't seem to go together for me.
Somehow, Spam and organic produce just don't seem to go together for me.